Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA back issues from October 2008:
Reminiscing About Old Times With Class Of '68
Oct 01, 2008; ... They say you can't go home again, and that's true. At least, notto stay. But sometimes you can visit, and that's what I did over theweekend. It was the 40-year reunion of Ephrata High School's Class of1968, which, of the 186 known class members out of 207 who are stillliving, had ...
Record Show Postpones Relocation
Oct 01, 2008; ... It's not a long-term solution, but Keystone Record Collectors hasa home for two more months. KRC, which hosts the monthly Pennsylvania Music Expo, has workedout a deal with the Pennsylvania Jaycees to continue using theJaycees bingo hall, 2460 New Holland Pike, Leola, for the ...
Street Fair In Motion ; New Holland Changes Parade Route For 77Th Fair
Oct 01, 2008; ... The heart of downtown New Holland shut down early on Tuesday toclear the way for the 77th annual Farmer's Fair. All along Main Street, Roberts Avenue and Franklin Street,workers set up rides like the Pharaoh's Fury, the Merry Mixer andthe Dragon Wagon, while venders got food and ...
Fritz Elementary 2Nd-Graders Get An Inside-Out View Of Planet Earth
Oct 01, 2008; ... Students at Fritz Elementary said Tuesday it's hard to imaginejust how vast the oceans and continents are. But they were able to gain perspective on those concepts throughAdventure Earth, a traveling program that teaches students acrossthe country about geography, math and earth ...
New Rec Center Coming To Life ; From Pool Concrete To Membership Sales, New Holland Facility Is Starting To Take Shape
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY CAROLE DECK Excitement is building in eastern Lancaster County as the NewHolland Recreation Center gets closer to becoming a reality. "It's really exciting to see the construction progress," saidAlan Houck, executive director for the center, which began sellingmemberships ...
Manheim Debates Cat Problem ; Council Member Seeks Ban On Feeding Strays; Shelter Urges Trap, Neuter Strategy
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY CIVIA KATZ An uncontrolled cat population in Manheim Borough has become aproblem. Council member Susan Miller said her yard is overrun with strays,and she placed the blame on people who feed the wild cats. "There are cats present everywhere," Miller said about ...
Strasburg Poised For A Party ; Township, Borough Will Celebrate 275Th Anniversary This Weekend
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JAMES BUESCHER An art show and a quilt auction, fireworks and a parade, even acommunity picnic and hymn singing - Strasburg Borough and StrasburgTownship's upcoming joint 275th anniversary will be a hugecelebration. Event co-organizer Teresa Cramer said that the Oct ....
Member Of Cocaine Cartel Sentenced To 9-16 Years
Oct 01, 2008; ... A member of a local multimillion-dollar cocaine-dealing cartelwas sentenced Monday to 9 to 16 years in state prison. Adalberto Rivera-Diaz, 35, was the main runner in a New York-to-Lancaster cocaine ring that was disbanded in 2006 when agents withthe Attorney General's Office began ...
Marriage Licenses
Oct 01, 2008 ... Jason Alexander Burhans, 26, of 16 Locust St., son of Christopherand Diana Burhans, and Kelly Marie Snyder, 24, same address,daughter of Scott and Robin Snyder. Patrick Arthur Brandt, 23, of 1703 Lynne Lane, Millersville, sonof Jeffrey and Martha Brandt, and Kathryn Elizabeth ...
Andrew Taylor Nolt
Oct 01, 2008 ... Andrew Taylor Nolt, 20, of 105 Morningside Dr., East Earl, diedTuesday morning, September 30, 2008, at the Essa Flory HospiceCenter in Lancaster after a two-year battle with cancer. Born in Ephrata, he was the son of Arden E. and Teresa (Gehman)Nolt of East Earl. He graduated from ...
Helen A. Ferguson
Oct 01, 2008 ... Helen A. Ferguson, 69, of Conestoga, died Tuesday, September 30,2008, at home after a courageous battle with cancer. She was the wife of the late Harry L. Ferguson, who died in 2001.Helen had worked as a waitress for the Host Resort and was currentlyworking at Lapp's ...
Alba D. "Deanie" Crognale
Oct 01, 2008 ... Alba D. "Deanie" Crognale, 84, of 22 Elm St., Greenville, passedaway at 10:56 PM Monday, September 29, 2008, in the emergency roomof UPMC Horizon, Greenville. Born in Macon, GA on October 5, 1923, a daughter of Bernard andMary Bell (Livingston) Thigpen, she was a 1941 graduate of ...
Warren G. "Doc" Harting
Oct 01, 2008 ... Warren G. "Doc" Harting, 87, of Ephrata, formerly of Reinholds,died Monday, September 29, 2008 at the home of his daughter. Hiswife, Edith Kayser Harting, died October 13, 1999. Born inBlainsport, he was a son of the late Harvey and Katie GelsingerHarting. He owned Harting's Implement ...
Kimberly Dawn Hess Rodriguez
Oct 01, 2008 ... Mrs. Kimberly Dawn Hess Rodriguez, 39, of Fayetteville, NC, wenthome to be with the Lord on Thursday, September 25, 2008. Kim was born in Lebanon, PA on January 8, 1969. She was a U. S.Army Veteran, serving during Grenada, Operation Desert Storm andJust Cause. Kim was a ...
Mark W. Hosler
Oct 01, 2008 ... Mark W. Hosler, 91, resident of United Zion Retirement Communityof Lititz, and formerly of Manheim, passed away in the early morninghours of September 29, 2008 of natural causes. He was married for 62years to the late Luella M. Hershey Hosler who died in 2001. Born inRapho Township, he ...
Helen Mae Rothweiler
Oct 01, 2008 ... Helen Mae Rothweiler, 85, of Lancaster, went to be with her Lordon Monday, September 29th, 2008 at Clarion Hospital. Born inLancaster, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Theresa A.(Dassinger) Rothweiler. Ms. Rothweiler was a Clerk for the Commonwealth Dept. of ...
Romaine M. "Sally" Jacobs
Oct 01, 2008 ... Romaine M. "Sally" Jacobs, 87, of Lancaster, formerly ofLancaster House North, 335 N. Prince St., Lancaster, died at theEssa Flory Hospice Center on September 29, 2008. She was the wife ofthe late Calvin Jacobs. Born in Lancaster, PA, she was the daughter of the late PaulRevere ...
Mark Emmons
Oct 01, 2008 ... Mark W. Emmons, Jr., 23, of Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, diedunexpectedly at home on Monday, September 29. He was the son of LisaLeitzel Herr, step-father, Andrew Herr of Strasburg and Mark W.Emmons, Sr., of Florida. Mark worked in the construction industry and was an ...
Regina G. Lyddy
Oct 01, 2008 ... Regina "Jean" G. (Hilbert) Lyddy, 82, a homemaker, of Lancaster,went to be with Jesus on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at ConestogaView after an illness. She was the wife of the late James T. Lyddy, who died in 2000. Born on Cabbage Hill, she was the daughter of the late Andrew ...
'Goodnews'on Rivergauges ; An Emergency Meeting Of The Group That Oversees The System Ended With A Pledge To Plug A Budget Shortfall That Threatened To Shut Down 14 Gauges.
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Susquehanna River Flood Forecast and Warning System willremain intact - for now. At an emergency meeting in central Pennsylvania on Monday of themultiagency committee that funds and oversees the system, memberspledged to plug a budget shortfall that threatened to shut ...
College Students Prep For The Polls ; '08 Election Energizes Generation Y
Oct 01, 2008; ... This year's presidential election is turning college students whowere once apathetic about elections into activists with an urgentmessage for their peers: Get out and vote. Elizabethtown College senior Megan Hoffa said she didn't give athought to politics until she heard Democratic ...
Lavorp Seeks Training Recuits
Oct 01, 2008 ... Lancaster Area Victim Offender Reconciliation Program isrecruiting volunteers to be facilitators for its Restorative Justiceprogram. LAVORP is faith based and reflects the biblical perspective ofshalom (peace), which is the existence of right relationships amongindividuals, the ...
Mccaskey Seeks Award Nominees
Oct 01, 2008 ... McCaskey Alumni Association is taking nominations for the 2009Distinguished Alumni Awards until Dec. 15. This will be the 15th year the association has annually honoredfive deserving graduates of McCaskey. The selection committee is looking for graduates whose success inlife, ...
Nonprofit Mapping Rural Dumping Sites ; Since 2005, Pa Cleanways Has Identified More Than 2,600 Illegal Dumpsites Containing An Estimated 11,000 Tons Of Trash.
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JAMES BUESCHER For folks like Daniel Smucker, there are plenty of reasons tolive in the country: clean air, open spaces and the ability to seethe stars at night. But there is a trade-off to living in rural Martic Township,especially for an Amish farmer like Smucker who ...
Manheim Central Oks Card Policy
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JOHN DUFFY Correspondent After almost a year of heated debate, Manheim Central schoolofficials approved a policy that would govern the use of procurementcards by teachers and administrators at a meeting Sept. 23. Hoping to avoid misuse and to placate critics, the ...
Millersville Passes Rules For Skate Park
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JAMES BUESCHER Correspondent For more than a year, a group of concerned parents and youngpeople have been working to turn a dilapidated tennis court inFreedom Memorial Park into a temporary skateboarding park forMillersville Borough. Thanks to a final vote on the ...
Manheim Hires Borough Exec
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY ROCHELLE A. SHENK Correspondent Bill Kelso took on the reins as Manheim Borough manager Sept. 16and worked at getting to know the community by meeting withmunicipal leaders, residents and business owners. Before his interview with council members for the ...
Grant Will Help Restore Building To House Marietta Visitor Center
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JAMES BUESCHER Correspondent It's not easy to wind the clock back 128 years - but a recent$70,000 Lancaster County grant is helping a nonprofit group takeanother step toward renovating Marietta Borough's planned visitorcenter. Proposed renovations will take the ...
Star Point Area Plans Yard Sale, Fall Fest Saturday
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Star Point Neighborhood Association in southwest Lancastercity will hold a Neighbors' Yard Sale and Fall Fest from 8 a.m. to 2p.m. Saturday at Rodney Park, Third and Crystal streets. Neighbors and neighborhood businesses may pay $10 for a space inthe yard sale. They also may ...
Sierra Club Plans Hike Through Lititz
Oct 01, 2008 ... Members of the Sierra Club-Lancaster Group invite the public tojoin a hike through Lititz Borough at 2 p.m. Oct. 12. The trek begins at Broad Street and Lititz Springs Park. Hikers will distribute flyers listing the Web sitewww.lititzwater.org. The Web site is ...
Mack Showcase
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Professor Gets Grant To Study Antibiotics
Oct 01, 2008; ... Staff Elizabethtown College biology professor Debra Wohl was awarded a$197,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to studywhether a mother's use of antibiotics during delivery increases achild's risk of developing eczema. The study - "Do Intravenous Antibiotics ...
Corrections/Clarifications
Oct 01, 2008 ... The date for trick-or-treating is Friday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8p.m. The information ...
Please Don't Eat The Artifacts ; Food Museums
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY KRISTY BULLER Nancy Ralph thinks about food a lot. As director of the New YorkFood Museum, she wants other people to do the same. "Our logo is getting people thinking about the food they eat,"Ralph said. "For me, that's largely connected to who is involved inthat process: ...
Food Bits
Oct 01, 2008 ... According to a new study in the American Journal of ClinicalNutrition from Penn State University, a serving of pistachios eachday as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol mayreduce the risk of heart disease. Results showed that consumingpistachios significantly lowered ...
Culinary Trivia Contest
Oct 01, 2008 ... It takes more than 4 tons of grapes to produce 1 ton of these. Ifyou think you know the answer, e-mail it to Lschmidt@Lnpnews.com fora chance to win a $20 gift card to Weis ...
Spinach Casserole: Delicious Dish Easy To Prepare Cauliflower And Broccoli Flan With Spinach Bechamel Low-Fat Cauliflower, Broccoli And Spinach Casserole
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dear Jeanne, Can you please tell me how to convert the enclosed recipe into amore healthful vegetable dish? I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you for your time. -Susan Hathon, Chula Vista, Calif. 2 1/2 cups cauliflower florets 2 1/2 cups broccoli ...
Think Outside The Box For Inside The Bag!
Oct 01, 2008 ... Are your kids starting to gripe about what's inside their lunchbags? Are you starting to gripe about what's inside their lunchbags? Start thinking ...
High-Water Marks
Oct 01, 2008 ... Dear Congressman Pitts, and Sens. Arlen Specter and Robert Casey: We know these are busy days in Washington. The presidentialcampaigns are running on hyper, Mr. Pitts faces his own re-electiontest, and then there's the matter of a financial meltdown that, ifleft unattended, could ...
Clarifying Pa. Scooter, Cycle Rules
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: Recently, an article in the Intelligencer Journal explained therules and regulations surrounding the operation of scooters andmotorcycles. One sentence in the article, while accurate, has led to someconfusion in the public concerning the legal operation of ...
Teach Financial Literacy In Schools
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: For more than a year, the world has been in the midst of afinancial crisis. Recently, we witnessed the greatest bankruptcy, aswell as bank failure, in our nation's history. Numerous jobs havebeen lost, many lives are in shambles and the United States - alongwith ...
Ready For Adventure Into Marxism?
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: What do you think? Are we tired yet of America's excellent littleadventure into Marxism? Do we have enough evidence yet that thetheories of Karl Marx don't work any better here than they did inthe Soviet Union? We sit in the shambles of the mortgage, banking ...
It's Time For A Clean Break In Washington
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: Let's make a clean break and give Barack Obama and Democrats achance to get our country on the right track. I'm just astounded bythe mess George Bush and Republican partners such as John McCainhave made these past eight years. Squander is the word that comes tomind ...
Reviewer Was Off Target
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: If the writers for the Intell - in the fields of politics,business or sports - were as ignorant of their subject matter as thewriters you send to cover theater events, your newspaper would havegone out of business many years ago, or at least have been forced ...
Mccain Lacks Judgment
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: John McCain has always been a strong supporter of deregulatorylegislation. In fact, the former co-chairperson of his presidentialcampaign, Phil Graham, authored much of the deregulatory legislationsupported by McCain and passed by a Republican-controlled ...
Obama Is Politics As Usual
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: McCain and Palin are the best shot we have at escaping politicsas usual. We cannot name one substantive thing Obama has done tooppose politics as usual. All he has done is talk about change. Hehas never been an actual agent of change in any political setting.His ...
Free Tax-Assistance Service
Oct 01, 2008 ... A free income tax assistance service will be offered from 9 a.m.to 3 p.m. Friday in the Blair Room at United Way Lancaster County,630 Janet Ave., for low-to-moderate-income (generally, $40,000 andbelow) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. This servicewill be provided on a ...
Weaverreclaimscrown ; L-L Golf Warwick Senior Fires82 To Keep Girls' Title
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY JASON FULGINITI Sports Staff Posing for a handful of pictures, making a few phone calls tofriends and family, even enjoying a celebratory soft drink from thenearby vending machine ... All would seem to have been more fitting reactions. Instead, long after ...
Mom's Club To Hold Biz Fair
Oct 01, 2008 ... Mom's Club of Elizabethtown will hold its 2008 Fall Open House &Home-Based Business Fair from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17 atElizabethtown Public Library. 10 S. Market St. The fair will showcase local home-based vendors. Each vendor willbring items to sell ...
Paterno's Mind On Purdue, Not Road ; As Schedule Intensifies, Lion King Thinks His Players Will Know Better Than To Look Past Boilermakers
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sports Staff The next item on Penn State's seasonal checklist: winning on theroad in the Big Ten. The next stop on the schedule: A Big Ten road game, at PurdueSaturday. "I think a road trip's a road trip," coach Joe Paterno saidduring his media teleconference ...
Manheim Sertoma Seeks Nominees
Oct 01, 2008 ... Manheim Sertoma Club is conducting a search for candidates forthe annual Service to Mankind Award. The club seeks nominees who have donated their time and ...
Sweeping Gesture ; Warriors Dominate Duel Of Unbeaten Girls' Teams
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sports Staff If there was a question coming into Tuesday's Lancaster-LebanonLeague girls' cross country showdown as to which team had the upperhand, Warwick coach Ed Nixdorf answered it plain and simple. "I think we're going to win," he said. Warwick's Allison Mannon, ...
Howe Earns Eagle Award
Oct 01, 2008 ... Boy Scout Troop 51 announced Thomas D. Howe II of Elizabethtownwas awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Tommy, the son of Tom and Jan Howe, is a 2008 graduate ofElizabethtown High School and Willow Street Lancaster County Careerand Technology Center. He was a member of Cub Scout ...
Findings Of Dig Will Be Discussed
Oct 01, 2008 ... The findings of a dig at Elizabeth Furnace will be discussed atthe meeting of Manheim Historical Society, 210 S. Charlotte St.,Manheim, at 7 p.m. Thursday. Timothy Trussell, assistant professor of anthropology atMillersville University, will present a program on the dig ...
Letter Honors Columbia For Preservation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Staff Preserving a nation starts, not at the federal level, butlocally. Columbia Borough is off to a good start, according to a letterreceived by the borough in September from Laura Bush, first lady andhonorary chairwoman of the Preserve America initiative. The honor ...
Lititz Travel Series Opens In Mexico
Oct 01, 2008; ... Correspondent For 46 years, the Lititz Rotary Club has been taking armchairtravelers all over the world with the club's Travel and AdventureSeries. The journey in 2008-09 opens Saturday in Mexico. Later in theseason the locations are Alaska, Italy, the American Southwest ...
Short Hops
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Manheim Borough Warwick Township Columbia Borough Elizabethtown Borough Northwest Regional ; Police Log
Oct 01, 2008 ... Eric J. Leid, 27, of 80 N. Main St., Manheim, was charged withfurnishing drug-free urine Sept. 15 at 11:47 a.m. after police tookhim into custody for a current warrant at a drug screening facility.Leid had a bottle of drug-free urine in his possession, which he wasusing to substitute his ...
Warick Installs New Oflicer
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY LAURA KNOWLES Correspondent Warwick Township Police Department has welcomed its newest policeofficer, Heather Hersch. Hersch was sworn in to her new position as police officer at theSept. 17 meeting of township supervisors. She comes to Warwick Township after ...
Garden Spot Seizescontrol Of Section ; L-L Volleyball Spartans Top Conestoga Valley, 3-0
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY KEVIN FREEMAN Assistant Sports Editor With a seemingly comfortable 13-5 lead in the third game of amatch it already led two games to none, the Garden Spot girls'volleyball team may have already had one foot on the first step ofthe bus. The backstory here is that ...
E-Town Library Books Activities For Teens
Oct 01, 2008 ... Elizabethtown Public Library invites teenagers to participate inthe Teen Advisory Board, which meets at 3 p.m. on the first Thursdayof the month, and to attend a variety of activities including theAnime/Manga Club and movie nights. Members of the board brainstorm ideas for events ...
Streaks,Knightsto Final ; L-L Tennis
Oct 01, 2008 ... Get ready for Hempfield-Manheim Township round two. The twoSection One powers will face off Friday for the L-L Team TennisChampionship at a site and time to be determined. Hempfield advanced Tuesday with a 4-1 win over Manheim Centraland Manheim Township shut out Donegal ...
Ephrata Elks To Host Benefit Appraisal Show
Oct 01, 2008 ... The Ephrata Elks, 170 Akron Road, will host the "Antiques/Collectibles Road Show" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 11. Tickets are $6 per item to be appraised and $5 for eachadditional item. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. and refreshments and foodwill be available for ...
Fueled By Rhythm And Boos ; Change Of Pace Helped Steelers Leave Offensive Doldrums Behind
Oct 01, 2008; ... BY MATT PAWLIKOWSKI Sports Correspondent PITTSBURGH - When Monday Night football makes an appearance inthe Steel City, there is one thing you can count on - loud,boisterous fan support. Such was the scenario when Baltimore, now the Steelers' mosthated rival came to ...
Ephrata Fair Crowns Livestock Champions
Oct 01, 2008; ... Staff The following are top winners from the 4-H livestock competitionheld during last week's 90th annual Ephrata Fair. In Thursday's dairy cattle contest, Jared Kline of Myerstown wasnamed supreme champion. Other top winners, by breed, were: Brown Swiss: Emily ...